| 1 | Not the right stuff : shrinking colonial administrators | 1 |
| 2 | Pierre Bourdieu's own cultural revolution | 22 |
| 3 | Jean Renoir's voyage of discovery : from the shores of the Mediterranean to the banks of the Ganges | 34 |
| 4 | France's black Venus | 60 |
| 5 | John Locke, imperialism, and the first stage of capitalism | 87 |
| 6 | Why, suddenly, are the Americans doing cultural history? | 100 |